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(NewsNation) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Friday that Democratic governors who person pledged to defy President-elect Donald Trump's migration policies are being "extremely irresponsible" and should alternatively question dialog with the incoming administration.
"If I had a caller president successful the White House, and adjacent if helium wasn't from my governmental party, the archetypal happening I would bash would beryllium telephone him up and spot if I could get a meeting," Noem said connected NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports."
The Republican governor, who is reportedly being considered for interior caput successful Trump's cabinet, dismissed aboriginal absorption from Democratic governors similar Illinois' JB Pritzker and California's Gavin Newsom arsenic "not a mature response" to Trump's predetermination victory.
Newsom, a fierce professional of Trump, called connected lawmakers Thursday to convene a peculiar league aboriginal this twelvemonth to safeguard the state’s progressive policies connected clime change, reproductive rights and migration up of different Trump presidency.
The determination — a time aft the erstwhile president defeated Vice President Kamala Harris successful the statesmanlike contention — efficaciously reignited California’s absorption run against blimpish policies that authorities Democratic leaders started during the archetypal Trump administration.
The determination is besides portion of a increasing treatment among Democratic authorities officials crossed the state seeking to support policies that look threats nether Trump’s leadership.
Kristi Noem connected interior secretary rumors: 'I volition assistance Trump nevertheless I can'
Regarding her ain imaginable furniture position, Noem deflected questions astir reports she's being considered to pb the Interior Department, saying lone that "the lone idiosyncratic who volition marque that determination is President Trump" portion noting she "love[s] being politician of South Dakota."
The politician besides expressed enactment for the Justice Department's determination to suspend investigations into Trump, saying it was "a bully archetypal step" toward restoring religion successful national instrumentality enforcement agencies. She said Trump had assured her helium did not program to prosecute governmental prosecutions erstwhile helium was successful office.
“Trump state and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is a anticipation for Interior Secretary, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter,” a Wall Street Journal story published Thursday that looked astatine a assortment of imaginable furniture appointments said.
She was the lone 1 mentioned for the Interior Department slot.
If chosen and confirmed, Noem would regenerate the Biden administration’s Interior secretary, Deb Haaland, who, according to the department’s website, “made past erstwhile she became the archetypal Native American to service arsenic a furniture secretary. She is simply a subordinate of the Pueblo of Laguna and a 35th-generation New Mexican.”
Among the U.S. Department of Interior’s authoritative responsibilities are national relationships with tribal governments, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education.
Noem, arsenic governor, has faced ups and downs with tribal governments successful South Dakota.
She offered exigency assistance aft flooding successful 2019, moved the authorities Office of Indian Education from the authorities Department of Education to the authorities Department of Tribal Affairs, has been banned from galore of the 9 reservations astatine antithetic times and shifted backing truthful the state’s instrumentality enforcement grooming programme could behaviour the first-ever people for tribal officers this year.
Trump’s little-noticed run committedness to displacement thousands of national employees who are successful Washington, D.C., to ‘patriot-led states’ besides points to a imaginable summation for South Dakota.
Trump has won South Dakota each 3 times successful his statesmanlike bids. On Tuesday, helium received 272,000 votes vs. 146,837 for Harris. That 63% was somewhat much than the 62% Trump received from South Dakota voters successful 2020 and 2016.
NewsNation affiliate KELO and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
